Little boats should keep near shore

If you would know the value of money; go, and try to borrow some! For, he that goes a borrowing, goes a sorrowing! and indeed, so does he that lends to such people, when he goes to get it in again!

A man is not completely born until he is dead. Why then should we grieve that a new child is born among the immortals, a new member added to their happy society?

I fear the man who drinks water and so remembers this morning what the rest of us said last night

The only time a question should be asked is when all other possibilities of finding the answer for yourself have been eliminated.

It is the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins.

Not to oversee workmen is to leave them your purse open.